Category: All-day kindergarten/daycare/preschool/ELCC

Unheard Voices: Discussing  Canada’s National Daycare System – Daycare policy leaves out many or most voices.

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2021 October 14. Cardus - (web video): "Unheard Voices: Discussing  Canada's National Daycare System"Cardus' Unheard Voices series brings more voices in. This panel discussion on the Canada-wide childcare policy features Karen Renkema of the Progressive Contractors Association of Canada, Julie…

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Government Attacks Parental Consent for Kids’ Health Care: “Mature Minors” & BC Infants Act

Posted by on in Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care, Mature minor consent & Infants Act, Parental consent & informed consent, Parental preference, Parents’ and Children’s Rights

2021 June. Kids First - (youtube video): "BC Government Campaign Attacks Parental Consent for Kids' Health Care: "Mature Minors" & BC Infants Act" Parents' legal obligation and right to determine their children's health care is under attack across Canada. The…

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Federal Budget 2021 Child Care Funding: Kids First President Helen Ward

Posted by on in 2021 Daycare Budget, Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization, Policy with promise

2021 April. Kids First - (Youtube video): "Federal Budget 2021 Child Care Funding: Kids First President Helen Ward". Child care is the care of a child, whoever does it. Child care is socially essential work, whoever does it. But the…

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Separating Children From Parents Has Been a Strategy of Canadian Politicians Since Before Confederation

Posted by on in Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care, Effects on child outcomes: health, cognitive, behavioural, First Nations, Misc., Power imbalance between parents & state

2021 June. National Post - (web news article): "The Canadians who thought Residential Schools were a good idea"For KF archive copy of news article see here Note: Edgerton Ryerson was the 'father' of not only the Residential School system but…

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Daycare Lobby Power Grab History: Toronto Star Daycare Reporter Describes How Canada’s Daycare Lobby Legacy Feminists Got Power by Getting in Bed With the Business Elite Neo-lib/Cons, “The Boys”, “The Suits” at RBC, the World Bank and the OCED

Posted by on in 2021 Daycare Budget, Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

2005. Laurie Monsabraaten. Toronto Star - (news article): "The 'Tiny Tot' brigade; The daycare lobby believed it might actually for the first time in 30 years taste victory a publicly funded, national child-care program. But defeat seems to be making…

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2021 Federal Budget: $30 Billion More Over 6 yrs For Non-Parental Institutional Child Care – Government Attack On the Right of Children, Women, Parents

Posted by on in Costs & costs-benefit analysis, Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization, Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care, Effects on child outcomes: health, cognitive, behavioural

The top priority in the April 2021 federal budget was more institutional child care and coercing all mothers into full time jobs. On top of additional massive funding, $30 billion more over 6 years was offered including a much expanded…

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WSJ – “A Dangerous Experiment in Child Rearing”

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1998 (posted 2021 March). Andrew Peyton Thomas. Wall Street Journal - (article): "A Dangerous Experiment in Child Rearing". PDF excerpt copy for reference Edward Zigler, co-founder of US Head Start program, called daycare centres "PSYCHOLOGICAL THALIDOMIDE"The research cited in this…

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